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A temporary ban on face recognition in public: why debate is key to finding a balance

On Monday the chief executive of Google parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, backed EU proposals for a temporary ban on facial recognition technology while regulators assess potential risks, highlighting concerns around the use of face recognition in public areas for subject identification, saying: “Facial recognition is fraught with risks...

MEFJanuary 23, 2020

Mobile Advertising Personal Data

RTB advertising: ICO threatens punishments, more work to be done

Six months after its first warning the UK Privacy Regulator (ICO) is making clear that the issues with RTB online advertising have not gone away, and it is now threatening to punish companies that are misbehaving. The analysis from ICO shows that sensitive personal information is shared by some advertising…

Dario BettiJanuary 21, 2020

Internet of Things Mobile Content Personal Data

CES: telecoms trends for 2020

MEF CEO Dario Betti shares his key take-aways from CES 2020: CES is of course not a mobile focused event, and telecom professionals might find they have to fight their way through super-fast wine chillers, AI enabled food mixers, companion robots that run IoT devices in the home, and new…

MEFJanuary 16, 2020

Digital Identity

What next for Personal Data & Identity?

Iain McCallum, mobile industry veteran and MEF Advisor shares discussions from the MEF Connects personal data and Identity sessions held in London at the end of last year. The MEF Connects London event was a great opportunity for the Personal Data & identity Working Group Members and other interested parties…

Iain McCallumJanuary 16, 2020

Enterprise Communications Internet of Things Personal Data

MEF Global Board Mobile Predictions 2020

Every year we ask MEF’s Global Board to share their insights into what will be the big trends and changes for the mobile ecosystem in the year ahead. With a new decade underway, mobile is at the heart of digital transformation and industry disruption. Here are the views from some…

MEFJanuary 9, 2020

Digital Identity

Mobile-first Digital Identity Will Transform Transactions & Civic Records

In this guest post, Juniper Lead Analyst James Moar describes developments in the field of digital identity, and explores the challenges and opportunities in how we may interact with our digital environment in the near and distant future. In the digital world, the issue of ‘who you are’ is hugely…

MEFDecember 23, 2019

Digital Identity Event Roundup Mobile Content

MEF @ FutureCom: Summit for LATAM Mobile Ecosystem

Valter Wolf, mobile industry expert and MEF LATAM Director shares discussions from the recent MEF Future of Messaging Summit in Brazil, held in association with Futurecom. At the event, members of the MEF gathered to discuss the potential of Content Monetization, Reach Communication services and Digital Identity.

MEFDecember 3, 2019

Mobile Advertising Personal Data

Dmexco 2019: is adtech facing an existential trust crisis?

On one hand, personalised online advertising. On the other, privacy. Can there ever be both? Tim Green traveled to Germany for Dmexco to witness an industry wrestling with a very big question. Here are the titles of some of the conference sessions at this year’s Dmexco event.The Trust Revolution. Making…

MEFSeptember 25, 2019

Event Mobile Advertising Personal Data

Dmexco 2019: Privacy panic and flying taxis – key takeaways from the big adtech show

The world’s digital marketers travelled to Cologne for Dmexco last week. Tim Green went too. What did they all learn? t’s always struck me as ironic that the Dmexco takes place in Germany. Dmexco gathers execs from all over the world to worship at the shrine of real-time programmatic advertising.…

MEFSeptember 18, 2019

Digital Identity

Digital Identity Interview: David Pollington, GSMA

MEFTV speaks to David Pollington, Senior Director of Technology & Product at the GSMA during EEMA’s 2019 London event, about the future of digital identity and trust on the internet. Asked about the discussions being held among industry leaders during the event, David said “Really the one thing that underpinned…

MEFSeptember 11, 2019

Personal Data

A temporary ban on face recognition in public: why debate is key to finding a balance

CES: telecoms trends for 2020

What next for Personal Data & Identity?

MEF Global Board Mobile Predictions 2020

Mobile-first Digital Identity Will Transform Transactions & Civic Records

MEF @ FutureCom: Summit for LATAM Mobile Ecosystem

Dmexco 2019: is adtech facing an existential trust crisis?

Dmexco 2019: Privacy panic and flying taxis – key takeaways from the big adtech show

Digital Identity Interview: David Pollington, GSMA

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